Editing September 23 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Maria Bononcini]], Italian violinist and composer (d. 1678)
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[Joseph Dudley]], English politician, [[List of colonial governors of Massachusetts|Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay]] (d. 1720)
*[[1650]] &ndash; [[Jeremy Collier]], English bishop and theologian (d. 1726)
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand VI of Spain]] (d. 1759)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Empress Go-Sakuramachi]] of Japan (d. 1813)
*[[1756]] &ndash; [[John Loudon McAdam]], Scottish engineer (d. 1836)<ref name="Douglas1962">{{cite book|author=Damon Greenleaf Douglas|title=John Loudon McAdam, His Contributions to Highway Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bdNUAAAAYAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Cornell Univ|page=36}}</ref>
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Emperor Kōkaku]] of Japan (d. 1840)
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[Mariano Moreno]], Argentinian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1811)
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]] (d. 1860)
*[[1791]] &ndash; [[Johann Franz Encke]], German astronomer and academic (d. 1865)
*  1791   &ndash; [[Theodor Körner (author)|Theodor Körner]], German soldier and author (d. 1813)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[William Holmes McGuffey]], American author and academic (d. 1873)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Hippolyte Fizeau]], French physicist and academic (d. 1896)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[John Colton (politician)|John Colton]], English-Australian politician, 13th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1902)
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Victoria Woodhull]], American journalist and activist (d. 1927)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Ellen Hayes]], American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1930)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[James Carroll Beckwith]], American painter and academic (d. 1917)
*  1852   &ndash; [[William Stewart Halsted]], American physician and surgeon (d. 1922)
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen]] (d. 1923)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Robert Bosch]], German engineer and businessman, founded [[Robert Bosch GmbH]] (d. 1942)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Mary Church Terrell]], American author and activist (d. 1954)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Pekka Halonen]], Finnish painter (d. 1933)
*  1865   &ndash; [[Emma Orczy]], Hungarian-English author and playwright (d. 1947)
*  1865   &ndash; [[Suzanne Valadon]], French model and painter (d. 1938)
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[John Lomax]], American teacher, musicologist, and folklorist (d. 1948)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Mary Mallon]], American cook and [[typhoid]] carrier (d. 1938)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/11/12/archives/typhoid-mary-dies-of-a-stroke-at-68-carrier-of-disease-blamed-for.html
|title='Typhoid Mary' Dies Of A Stroke At 68. Carrier of Disease, Blamed for 51 Cases and 3 Deaths, but Immune
|date=November 12, 1938
|work=[[The New York Times]]
|access-date=February 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605105457/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D15FE3859117389DDAB0994D9415B888FF1D3
|archive-date=June 5, 2011
|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Moshe Zvi Segal]], Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 1968)
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr]], Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1971)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Walter Lippmann]], American journalist and publisher, co-founded ''[[The New Republic]]'' (d. 1974)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Paulus]], German general (d. 1957)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Miron Merzhanov]], Russian architect and engineer (d. 1975)
*  1895   &ndash; [[Johnny Mokan]], American baseball player (d. 1985)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Paul Delvaux]], Belgian painter (d. 1994)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Walter Pidgeon]], Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1984)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Les Haylen]], Australian journalist and politician (d. 1977)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Tom C. Clark]], American lawyer and judge, 59th [[Attorney General of the United States]] (d. 1977)
*  1899   &ndash; [[Louise Nevelson]], American sculptor (d. 1988)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor)|Bill Stone]], English soldier (d. 2009)